Null States

Null States
Author: Malka Older
Publisher: Tor.com
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0765393387

"After the last controversial global election, the global infomocracy that has ensured thirty years of world peace is fraying at the edges. As the new Supermajority government struggles to establish its legitimacy, agents of Information across the globe strive to keep the peace and maintain the flows of data that feed the new world order. In the newly-incorporated DarFur, a governor dies in a fiery explosion. In Geneva, a superpower hatches plans to bring micro-democracy to its knees. In Central Asia, a sprawling war among archaic states threatens to explode into a global crisis. And across the world, a shadowy plot is growing, threatening to strangle Information with the reins of power."--Front jacket flap.

Quantum Field Theory

Quantum Field Theory
Author: Gordon Walter Semenoff
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2023-12-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 981995410X

This textbook is intended to be used in an introductory course in quantum field theory. It assumes the standard undergraduate education of a physics major and it is designed to appeal to a wide array of physics graduate students, from those studying theoretical and experimental high energy physics to those interested in condensed matter, optical, atomic, nuclear and astrophysicists. It includes a thorough development of the field theoretic approach to nonrelativistic many-body physics as a step in developing a broad-based working knowledge of some of the basic aspects of quantum field theory. It presents a logical, step by step systematic development of relativistic field theory and of functional techniques and their applications to perturbation theory with Feynman diagrams, renormalization, and basic computations in quantum electrodynamics.

Speech Recognition Algorithms Using Weighted Finite-State Transducers

Speech Recognition Algorithms Using Weighted Finite-State Transducers
Author: Takaaki Hori
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2022-05-31
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3031025628

This book introduces the theory, algorithms, and implementation techniques for efficient decoding in speech recognition mainly focusing on the Weighted Finite-State Transducer (WFST) approach. The decoding process for speech recognition is viewed as a search problem whose goal is to find a sequence of words that best matches an input speech signal. Since this process becomes computationally more expensive as the system vocabulary size increases, research has long been devoted to reducing the computational cost. Recently, the WFST approach has become an important state-of-the-art speech recognition technology, because it offers improved decoding speed with fewer recognition errors compared with conventional methods. However, it is not easy to understand all the algorithms used in this framework, and they are still in a black box for many people. In this book, we review the WFST approach and aim to provide comprehensive interpretations of WFST operations and decoding algorithms to help anyone who wants to understand, develop, and study WFST-based speech recognizers. We also mention recent advances in this framework and its applications to spoken language processing. Table of Contents: Introduction / Brief Overview of Speech Recognition / Introduction to Weighted Finite-State Transducers / Speech Recognition by Weighted Finite-State Transducers / Dynamic Decoders with On-the-fly WFST Operations / Summary and Perspective

Non-perturbative Methods in 2 Dimensional Quantum Field Theory

Non-perturbative Methods in 2 Dimensional Quantum Field Theory
Author: Elcio Abdalla
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 834
Release: 2001
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9812810153

The second edition of Non-Perturbative Methods in Two-Dimensional Quantum Field Theory is an extensively revised version, involving major changes and additions. Although much of the material is special to two dimensions, the techniques used should prove helpful also in the development of techniques applicable in higher dimensions. In particular, the last three chapters of the book will be of direct interest to researchers wanting to work in the field of conformal field theory and strings. This book is intended for students working for their PhD degree and post-doctoral researchers wishing to acquaint themselves with the non-perturbative aspects of quantum field theory. Contents: Free Fields; The Thirring Model; Determinants and Heat Kernels; Self-Interacting Fermionic Models; Nonlinear a Models: Classical Aspects; Nonlinear a Models OCo Quantum Aspects; Exact S-Matrices of 2D Models; The Wess-Zumino-Witten Theory; QED 2: Operator Approach; Quantum Chromodynamics; QED 2: Functional Approach; The Finite Temperature Schwinger Model; Non-Abelian Chiral Gauge Theories; Chiral Quantum Electrodynamics; Conformally Invariant Field Theory; Conformal Field Theory with Internal Symmetry; 2D Gravity and String-Related Topics. Readership: Graduate students and researchers in high energy and quantum physics."

Biocomputing 2002 - Proceedings Of The Pacific Symposium

Biocomputing 2002 - Proceedings Of The Pacific Symposium
Author: Russ B Altman
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 703
Release: 2001-12-12
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9814489913

The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing brings together key researchers from the international biocomputing community. It is designed to be maximally responsive to the need for critical mass in subdisciplines within biocomputing. This book contains peer-reviewed articles in computational biology.

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2002, Kauai, Hawaii, 3-7 January 2002

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2002, Kauai, Hawaii, 3-7 January 2002
Author: Russ B. Altman
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 710
Release: 2001
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9789812799623

The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing brings together key researchers from the international biocomputing community. It is designed to be maximally responsive to the need for critical mass in subdisciplines within biocomputing. This book contains peer-reviewed articles in computational biology. Contents: Human Genome Variation: Disease, Drug Response, and Clinical Phenotypes; Genome-Wide Analysis and Comparative Genomics; Expanding Proteomics to Glycobiology; Literature Data Mining for Biology; Genome, Pathway and Interaction Bioinformatics; Phylogenetic Genomics and Genomic Phylogenetics; Proteins: Structure, Function and Evolution. Readership: Graduate students, academics and industrialists in bioinformatics.

Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Author: Costantino Thanos
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 680
Release: 2003-08-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 354045747X

ECDL 2002 was the 6th conference in the series of European Conferences on Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries. Following previous events in Pisa (1997), Heraklion (1998), Paris (1999), Lisbon (2000), and Da- stadt (2001), this year ECDL was held in Rome. ECDL 2002 contributed, - gether with the previous conferences, to establishing ECDL as the major - ropean forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. ECDL 2002 continued the tradition already established by the previous conferences in meeting the needs of a large and diverse constituency, which includes researchers, practitioners, educators, policy makers, and users. The focus of ECDL 2002 was on underlying principles, methods, systems, and tools to build and make available e?ective digital libraries to end users. Architecture, metadata, collection building, web archiving, web technologies,- books, OAI applications, preservation, navigation, query languages, audio video retrieval, multimedia-mixed media, user studies and evaluation, humanities, and digital libraries were some of the key issues addressed. An international Program Committee was set up composed of 61 members, with representatives from 25 countries. A total of 145 paper submissions, 15 poster submissions, and 18 proposals for demos were received. Each paper was evaluated by 3 referees and 42 full papers and 6 short papers of high quality were selected for presentation.

Essays on Economic Decisions Under Uncertainty

Essays on Economic Decisions Under Uncertainty
Author: Jacques Drèze
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 460
Release: 1990-05-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521386975

Professor Dreze is a highly respected mathematical economist and econometrician. This book brings together some of his major contributions to the economic theory of decision making under uncertainty, and also several essays. These include an important essay on 'Decision theory under moral hazard and state dependent preferences' that significantly extends modern theory, and which provides rigorous foundations for subsequent chapters. Topics covered within the theory include decision theory, market allocation and prices, consumer decisions, theory of the firm, labour contracts, and public decisions.

AdS3/CFT2 and Holographic Entanglement Entropy

AdS3/CFT2 and Holographic Entanglement Entropy
Author: Jie-qiang Wu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2019-10-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9811332126

This book focuses on AdS3/CFT2, addressing different aspects of this correspondence in field theory and in gravity, including entanglement entropy, higher genus partition function, and conformal block. Holographic entanglement entropy is an important area in holographic and quantum information, which implies a deep relation between geometry and quantum entanglement. In this book, the authors use holographic entanglement entropy as a tool to investigate AdS3/CFT2. They study the entanglement entropy at high temperature in field theory and in holographics, and show that the results match each other in classical and one-loop order. In the AdS3/CFT2 system, they examine in detail the correspondence, exploring the higher genus partition function, entanglement entropy in a general system and conformal block, and they find good correspondence in field theory and gravity. The result strongly supports AdS3/CFT2 correspondence. In addition, they develop several important techniques in 2d CFT and 3d gravity, which also offer inspiration for other fields.